Adi Shankaracharya was an Indian Vedic scholar and teacher whose works give a harmonising reading of the sastras, with liberating knowledge of the self at its core, combining Advaita Vedanta teachings of the period. This article is a collection of Adi Shankaracharya quotes that you can share online or with your friends and family.
Adi Shankaracharya is regarded as one of India’s most illustrious personalities in philosophy, religion, and spirituality. The greatness of Adi Shankaracharya’s mind and his grasp of life are reflected in his quotes. He defined the teachings of Advaita Vedanta, produced numerous treatises and commentaries, and established four Shankaracharya Mutts or Mathas at Sringeri, Dwarka, Puri, and Kedarnath during his 32-year life in the 8th century. Adi Shankara was born in the little town of Kalady in Kerala and travelled extensively around India during his lifetime.
Here are some beautiful quotes of Adi Shankaracharya
You never identify yourself with the shadow cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body, either.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
Where renunciation and longing for liberation are weak, tranquility and the other virtues are a mere appearance, like the mirage in the desert.
Sickness is not cured by saying ‘Medicine,’ but by drinking it. – Adi Shankaracharya Quotes
for he who grasps the unreal is bound; mark this, my companion.
Who is more self-deluded than he who is careless of his own welfare after gaining a hard-won human birth and manhood, too?
When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.
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When our false perception is corrected, misery ends also.
You are the Self, the infinite Being, the pure, unchanging Consciousness, which pervades everything. Your nature is bliss and your glory is without stain. Because you identify yourself with the ego, you are tied to birth and death. Your bondage has no other cause.
As the mind becomes gradually established in the Self, it proportionately gives up the desire for external objects. When all such desires have been eliminated, there is the unobstructed realization of the Self. – Adi Shankaracharya Quotes
Even after the Truth has been realized, there remains that strong, beginningless, obstinate impression that one is the agent and experiencer… This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme Self. Sages call that cessation of mental impressions, “Liberation.”
Elated in a solitary place, free from desires and with senses controlled, one should meditate free of thought on that one infinite Self.
The entire universe is truly the Self. There exists nothing at all other than the Self. The enlightened person sees everything in the world as his own Self, just as one views earthenware jars and pots as nothing but clay. – Adi Shankaracharya Quotes
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The soul acts, to be sure, but the activity of the soul is not independent. It acts itself, but the Lord causes it to act.
Moreover, the Lord in causing it to act now has regard to its former efforts, and He also caused it to act in a former existence, having regard to its efforts previous to that existence.
The Self is the witness, beyond all attributes, beyond action. It can be directly realized as pure Consciousness and infinite bliss. Its appearance as an individual soul is caused by the delusion of our understanding, and has no reality. By -its very nature, this appearance is unreal. When our delusion has been removed, it ceases to exist. – Adi Shankaracharya Quotes
